GM,
Wishing everyone a prosperous late year of the Dragon š². Due to my wife giving birth yesterday, this week's article will be postponed until Thursday, and the podcast on Wednesday will proceed as usual. Once things settle down this week, the articles will resume on Tuesday next week.
GM, According to Tuesdayās poll results, this article will once again feature human narration. I personally prefer reading my own work aloud, though it does take extra time to record ā unlike AI-generated audio, which is much easier š. Still, Iāll keep exploring AI tools to see if thereās
GM, Longtime readers ofĀ BlocktrendĀ know that writing this article carries some legal risk for me. The main subject,Ā OwlTing, once filed both civil and criminal defamation lawsuits against me and three other netizens in 2020 ā all because I criticized the governmentās so-calledĀ āmosquito chaināĀ project onĀ Blocktrend, for
GM, Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of 38-year-old fraud ring leaderĀ Chen ZhiĀ (English nameĀ Vincent) and seizedĀ 127,000 bitcoinsĀ from his wallet ā worth aroundĀ $15 billion USDĀ ā marking theĀ largest cryptocurrency confiscation in U.S. history. TheĀ Prince Group, chaired by Chen,
GM, Exactly one year ago, Stripe announced itsĀ $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge, a startup providing stablecoin APIs ā marking the largest acquisition in crypto history. At the end of my article back then, I wroteĀ¹: The current model of cross-border remittance is built on the assumption that money itself